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In such cases, we may say that the modern world is too ridiculous to be ridiculed. You cannot caricature a caricature.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
One of the great comics of our time is booked for a gig in New York City. His agent isn’t paying attention, though. The comic shows up at the club; he’s in a good mood. He brings his best material. He’s up there, working the room, and no one is laughing. Not a peep. He’s bombing. After the show, he’s beating himself up, thinking of quitting comedy
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If you do not think it extraordinary that a pumpkin is always a pumpkin, think again.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
["I am a man, and consider nothing human to be foreign to rue"],
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
“Inspectors must, of course, be physically sound. They must have an exceptional sense of taste, and this must be educated enough to recognize if a chef has taken shortcuts. Or worse”—Arnaud’s expression became grave—“if he has been cheating.” He paused to let this horror sink in. “Disguised dishes,” he said. “Cod masquerading as another fish under
... See morePeter Mayle • French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew (Vintage Departures)
Consider the Lobster
An exploration of the annual Maine Lobster Festival, its history, cultural significance, and the strange paradox of lobster being considered a high-class delicacy despite its lowly origins.
columbia.eduIf you leave off looking at books about beasts and men, if you begin to look at beasts and men then (if you have any humour or imagination, any sense of the frantic or the farcical) you will observe that the startling thing is not how like man is to the brutes, but how unlike he is. It is the monstrous scale of his divergence that requires an expla
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